Motorola Solutions cuts Socrata out of crime mapping tool

Socrata and Motorola Solutions are ending a partnership that powered a crime-mapping tool, about a year after Socrata's acquisition by Tyler Technologies, a competitor of Motorola. It’s been just over three years since Socrata, a digital government software company and a pioneer in the open data movement, announced its partnership with Motorola Solutions to improve CrimeReports.com, an interactive online map owned by Motorola that pulls crime data from records management and computer aided dispatch systems around the US. In that time, CrimeReports has become a resource for agencies to share local police work with interested citizens, and exactly what Motorola will do with it remains to be seen. More than 1,000 law enforcement agencies contribute data to CrimeReports, according to its website. Tyler Technologies spokesman Saf Rabah confirmed the split will happen in June, and customers and products of Tyler Technologies will be unaffected.

“When [Socrata] was an independent company, we partnered to bring our expertise in open data … to modernize the [CrimeReports] platform that was serving up that data on the Web and on mobile devices,” he said. “The relationship wasn’t going to be perpetual. We had the time horizon, but I think that time horizon was accelerated by the acquisition of Socrata last year by Tyler. Tyler and Motorola do compete in the public safety space, so I can only assume that that’s the reason.”

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